title: What information counts at the moment of practice? Information practices of renal nurses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article is a report of a study done to identify how renal nurses experience information about renal care and the information practices that they used to support everyday practice.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  What counts as nursing knowledge remains a contested area in the discipline yet little research has been undertaken. Information practice encompasses a range of activities such as seeking, evaluation and sharing of information. The ability to make informed judgement is dependent on nurses being able to identify relevant sources of information that inform their practice and those sources of information may enable the identification of what knowledge is important to nursing practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Habermas and Schatzki; it employed qualitative research techniques. Using purposive sampling six registered nurses working in two regional renal units were interviewed during 2009 and data was thematically analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The information practices of renal nurses involved mapping an information landscape in which they drew on information obtained from epistemic, social and corporeal sources. They also used coupling, a process of drawing together information from a range of sources, to enable them to practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Exploring how nurses engage with information, and the role the information plays in situating and enacting epistemic, social and corporeal knowledge into everyday nursing practice is instructive because it indicates that nurses must engage with all three modalities in order to perform effectively, efficiently and holistically in the context of patient care.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. abonner@csu.edu.au
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonner
authors.forename: Annemaree
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lloyd
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D036301:Qualitative Research; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000451:nursing*